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EXPORT CONTROL POLICY

Topic Summary

Current US technology export control policy has been based on legacy laws that carry from World War II. Many laws that were created with nuclear weapons weighing heavily on the mind have facilitated the development of current technology policy. These established laws have defined how military-oriented technology should be controlled for export, as well as "dual-use" technology that can have both civilian and military applications. With the rapid expansion of supercomputers and encryption technology, largely "dual-use", the executive office's ability to make fast policy has largely outlined the overall current export controls on such technology.

• Past laws
  The important export laws since 1940. They broadly define the implementation of export control.
• Recent policy
  How the executive office and the Department of Commerce have used the powers vested in them by the older laws.
• Court Cases
  Recent court cases defining the new interpretation of the encryption laws

[overview and site map]
[intro] [export control policy] [current situation] [looking ahead] [conclusion]